[OSM-talk] [OSM-dev] International Labels for Tags

[Erik Johansson]

On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 12:10 AM, Gregory <nomoregrapes at googlemail.com> wrote:
> On 6 April 2010 12:12, Claus Stadler <ravenarkadon at googlemail.com> wrote:
>> I'd like to know if there are structured mapping files for languages
>> from tags to labels - such as a mapping
>> for
>>    spanish
>> from
>>    highway=traffic_signals
>> to
>>    Semáforo

Having a short descriptions and translation of OSM tags, is highly interesting.

I've done this i two ways first is adding a translation section to
pages like this:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:shop%3Dalcohol

or as I experimented with today, adding new pages for
translations/shortdescriptons:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Translation:tag:highway%3Dtraffic_lights
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Translation:key:sl_realtime

Also an interesting things was trying to find related terms/synonyms
for tags, which I did in the shop alcohol as well. That would make it
possible to show that the meaning/concept can have different tags
because of how the local people think..